Production Planner

Soucy Group; Drummondville; In loco; CAD 65.000 - 85.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Soucy Group in Drummondville is seeking a Production Planner who can translate demand and priorities into a realistic, efficient production plan for our teams. You’ll forecast needs, adjust plans as priorities shift, and ensure readiness to meet customer commitments.

In a fast-growing manufacturing environment, you will monitor progress, analyze variances, and guide procurement, production and engineering to incorporate constraints and deliver on time.

Mansioni

• Develop and maintain the production plan for finished and semi-finished products by balancing customer needs, equipment capacity, workforce availability, materials, and inventory levels
• Anticipate production needs and constraints to establish planning strategies that optimize capacity, smooth out production, and provide clear visibility to the various teams
• Establish and adjust production priorities in collaboration with customer service and operations to meet our customer commitments and respond effectively to changes
• Plan operations while taking into account capacity constraints, shared peripheral equipment, setup times, critical resources, and scheduled maintenance shutdowns
• Work closely with procurement, production, and engineering to incorporate their realities and constraints into the production plan, particularly for products under development
• Monitor the plan’s progress daily, analyze variances, and promptly communicate potential impacts on production schedules and delivery times while proposing alternative scenarios
• Ensure the reliability of data and planning parameters in the manufacturing system, analyze MRP messages, and liaise with stakeholders as needed
• Analyze performance metrics, explain variances, and help implement corrective actions and improvements to optimize planning and operational performance

Descrizione del lavoro

Do you instinctively think a few steps ahead? Do you enjoy analyzing, forecasting, and finding the best balance between customer needs and operational realities?

As a production planner, you’ll be at the heart of our operational decisions. Your role: to translate demand and our business priorities into a realistic, efficient, and motivating production plan for the teams.

In a rapidly growing manufacturing environment where priorities shift quickly, you’ll need to anticipate needs and constraints, adjust the plan as circumstances change, and rally the various stakeholders around our priorities. Your judgment, agility, and ability to see the big picture will have a direct impact on our ability to deliver to our customers and support our growth.

In this position, you will have the opportunity to :

• Develop and maintain the production plan for finished and semi-finished products by balancing customer needs, equipment capacity, workforce availability, materials, and inventory levels


• Anticipate production needs and constraints to establish planning strategies that optimize capacity, smooth out production, and provide clear visibility to the various teams


• Establish and adjust production priorities in collaboration with customer service and operations to meet our customer commitments and respond effectively to changes


• Plan operations while taking into account capacity constraints, shared peripheral equipment, setup times, critical resources, and scheduled maintenance shutdowns


• Work closely with procurement, production, and engineering to incorporate their realities and constraints into the production plan, particularly for products under development


• Monitor the plan’s progress daily, analyze variances, and promptly communicate potential impacts on production schedules and delivery times while proposing alternative scenarios


• Ensure the reliability of data and planning parameters in the manufacturing system, analyze MRP messages, and liaise with stakeholders as needed


• Analyze performance metrics, explain variances, and help implement corrective actions and improvements to optimize planning and operational performance

Ready to play a key role? We can't wait to see what you'll bring to the table!